Table 5.
Distribution of categories of lesions in mandible bones as detected by two examiners conducting visual inspection and palpation.
| Visual Inspection | Palpation | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Examiner 1 | Examiner 2 | Examiner 1 | Examiner 2 | |||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| Normal | 86 | 59.7 | 91 | 63.2 | 57 | 39.6 | 54 | 37.5% |
| Exostosis | ||||||||
| Suspicious exostosis | 28 | 19.4 | 22 | 15.3 | 15 | 10.4 | 20 | 13.9 |
| Confirmed exostosis | 17 | 11.8 | 12 | 8.3 | 43 | 29.9 | 39 | 27.1 |
| Concavity | ||||||||
| Suspicious concavity | 11 | 7.6 | 10 | 6.9 | 12 | 8.3 | 14 | 9.7 |
| Confirmed concavity | 1 | 0.7 | 4 | 2.8 | 12 | 8.3 | 12 | 8.3 |
| Complex lesion | ||||||||
| Suspicious exostosis and concavity | 1 | 0.7 | 3 | 2.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Suspicious concavity and confirmed exostosis | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1.4 | 1 | 0.7 | 2 | 1.4 |
| Suspicious exostosis and confirmed concavity | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Confirmed exostosis and concavity | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2.1 | 3 | 2.1 | |
| 57 | 39.6 | 54 | 37.5 | |||||
| Total | 144 | 144 | ||||||